Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 70

He stooped forward with a hand on each bent knee and peeped far into the deep water.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stoop, peep · To what, where: bent knee

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stooped	nsubj
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 stooped	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stooped	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 knee	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 knee	det
9	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knee	amod
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stooped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 peeped	cc
12	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stooped	conj
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 peeped	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peeped	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	Iktomi			each bent knee		with a hand; forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
2	peep	past	Iktomi not said here					into the deep water; far property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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